This was my experience applying for Microsoft's customer-facing technology roles (which later turned into the MACH program during the course of my application). 1. Spoke to a rep on campus during career week and turned in my resume. Also applied online. 2. About 3 weeks later, had a 30-minute phone call with a generic recruiter. All behavioral questions. 3. About a month later, received an email from my school's recruiter saying that they were having trouble fitting everyone in for final interviews and that I may have to wait a while. He asked me to email him if I got other offers in the meantime. 4. A week later, I got another offer from a different company, so I emailed my recruiter letting him know. He told me he would need two people to cancel on him for me to be able to interview before my offer deadline, so I didn't expect anything to happen. 5. A week later, I got a call saying that a spot to interview had opened up for the following day in Texas. I needed to hop on a plane the next morning at 5AM and prepare a presentation, but I figured it's final interviews at Microsoft...I'm going to make it happen! 6. The final interviews were just two behavioral interviews with three people, and in one of those I gave my presentation. Everyone was very friendly and sincere. No one tried to stump me with difficult questions. I was surprised that there were no technical questions, but I think they were more interested in my ability to explain things on my resume and hold a conversation than technical skills. (As they say, it's easier to teach someone technical skills than social skills.) 7. Exactly 1 week later, I received the official offer letter!

Interview process had 2 technical rounds followed by manager round and director round. Process got completed in a day in Microsoft office and it took another 2 weeks to release offer.